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Work Experience

A journey through my professional experiences and contributions

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Founding Engineer

i4 Ops
Fully remoteJul 2025 - Present

Building public-safe zero-exfiltration infrastructure security products for AI-era data risk at an early-stage startup

Working across Go, Python, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering while keeping company implementation details private

Collaborating with the founding team on security architecture, customer discovery, roadmap tradeoffs, and production delivery

Applying observability, secure-by-design engineering, and automation practices to infrastructure security workflows

GoPythonAWSKubernetesTerraformInfrastructure SecurityCloud SystemsObservabilityProduct Engineering
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Software Engineer

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UTOct 2023 – May 2025

Reduced manual data verification effort by 70% while maintaining 99.9% accuracy across 1M+ records by engineering automated Python validation workflows

Improved digital preservation integrity for 1M+ archival records by building automated metadata extraction and validation pipelines in Python and Bash that caught schema violations before ingest

PythonAWSData ProcessingBashAutomationAPI Integration
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Software Engineer – Full Stack

XGRO Technologies
Pune, IndiaOct 2021 – Oct 2022

Shipped 3 full-stack e-commerce platforms handling 10K+ daily transactions using React and SQL-backed REST APIs, scaling to 2x traffic growth without infrastructure changes

Reduced page load times by 30% and bounce rates by 12% by optimizing SQL execution plans, implementing Redis caching, and restructuring API payloads

Increased user engagement by 25% through responsive product UI redesigns in Figma and CSS that improved mobile conversion

React.jsNode.jsSQLREST APIsRedisPerformance OptimizationUX/UI